Creative Rights  :Teaching Human rights using the Arts.
Commissioner: British Council & Coventry City of Culture  2021

Creative Rights is a digital resource that brings the issue of Human Rights to life through artworks, research journeys and creative project examples.

 

It’s been created for young people and educators across the world by young people aged 13-18 from three Coventry schools and uses a scheme of work that I have developed over a number of years for children exploring Human rights and Art and Activism.  Creative Rights  website was produced by Horizon Collective, in a partnership project with Coventry City of Culture and the British Council.

 

The resource uses the UN Declaration of Human Rights as a starting point.

 

Following online engagement sessions that connected schools with local and international artists and educators, students across creative subject areas picked an article from within the Declaration as an area of focus.

 

The students then worked  with their lead teacher to document both their process and their final outcomes.

 

The documentation of this journey forms the core of this new resource demonstrating how creativity can ignite new and relevant conversations around the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

 

The resource is designed to inspire other classrooms to create their own responses to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and to start new conversations about its relevance today.

 

With special thanks to the students and teachers of Caludon Castle, Finham Park 2 ( Where i led and wrote the scheme)  and Lyng Hall Schools in Coventry.